Living trees need to live a full life and the IVAFMS Foundation has the technology to improve the growth rate of its Mahogany trees and other speciies while producing forestry products that symbolize sustainable reforestation in the Philippines. Continue reading

Wisdom is not always what we think it is. Large and substantial companies may set the pace based upon traditional practices, such as clear cutting of the forests. Conservation using sustainable reforestation might be the wise approach, even though it flys in the face of traditional cutting. Continue reading

OFW's listen up. Buying a few seeds and having a forestry management foundation plant them for you and assure their growth can bring you untold wealth and financial security with a mortgage, before you have to pay for college tuition and before you reach normal retirement, which the trees will help pay for also. Continue reading

The customary making of charcoal is GHG emission intensive, however, in comparison the process for making biochar is much friendlier for the atmosphere, some say it has zero GHG emissions. Continue reading

Ilin Value Added Forestry Management Services Foundation (IVAFMS - 1999) offers practical, sustainable development of an agro forestry cottage industry on private land through assistance agreements, located on the islands of Ilin and Ambulong, San Jose, Mindoro Occidental, Philippines. Goal: Transform 10 poor villages into high-income agro forestry communities within 25 years. Income is produced within the first year. Completion of the pilot is foremost. Lessons learned expand the project to each village simultaneously. IN THE PHOTO: The Philippines has over 300 edible types of fruit. In a local contest IVAFMS staff asked students to name the fruit in the... Continue reading

Reforestation is feasible when the samll farmer at the grassroots level is shown how he can profit. Poor farmers turn a deaf ear to Climate Change projects but the listen closely when they can make a profit while Climate Change initiatives benefit simultaneously. Continue reading

Forest biochar is created using low oxygen and if efficient the gas emissions are burned in the process, thus creating an environmentally favorable process. This process produces mostly activated carbon, a gram of which has more surface area than a football field, so the spreading of 2 kg pe...

Forest biochar is created using low oxygen and if efficient the gas emissions are burned in the process, thus creating an environmentally favorable process. This process produces mostly activated carbon, a gram of which has more surface area than a football field, so the spreading of 2 kg pe...

Forest biochar is created using low oxygen and if efficient the gas emissions are burned in the process, thus creating an environmentally favorable process. This process produces mostly activated carbon, a gram of which has more surface area than a football field, so the spreading of 2 kg per square meter onto the forest floor greatly enhances the char's absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere. In turn the feeding of it to the tree through its root system, obviously at ground level. The reciprocation from the tree increases the output of oxygen into the atmosphere. YES THIS HELPS THE FARMER... Continue reading

1 in a series The author is speaking from experience and not from the classroom. There are certainly better ways, especially theoretically, but this system is working within the Third World framework of the Philippines. Which Tree? The Broad Leaf Mahogany is also called the True Mahogany...